interprets nature-it makes palpable her finest essence-it reveals the spiritual source of the corporeal, by the perfections of its incarnations. It implies a marriage between intellect and soul. It is the fairest offspring of the human mind. Its beginning of existence is a rising up. ward from the finite towards the infinite-its life is a struggle after perfection-its home is in the inmost chambers of the spirit, where it is apparelled by beauty to shed radiance on the earth. Art is mental procreation, and the mind of a people can no more grow without art, than its body can without generation. It embalms the past-it beautifies the present-it facilitates and widens the future.* *Preface to the correspondence between Schiller and Goethe, translated by George H. Calvert, Baltimore, 1841. COMMERCIAL STATISTICS OF NEW ORLEANS. RECEIPTS AND VALUE OF PRODUCE FROM THE INTERIOR. A Table showing the receipts of the principal articles from the interior, during the year ending 31st August, 1848, with their estimated average and total value. Exports of Cotton and Tobacco, for the year commencing 1st September, 1847, and ending 31st May, 1848. Glasgow and Greenock.......... 27996 Cowes, Falmouth, &c....................... Cork, Belfast, &C............................ 000....................... ......619817.... ****... 8706 000 1153 000 Havre.......... 2201 Bordeaux................... Marseilles..... 3178.............. 128 2625 Nantz, Cette and Rouen........ Amsterdam 1831.............................. 000 Rotterdam and Ghent ............ Bremen.... 304...... 75 5252 Antwerp, &C............................ 3371 Hamburg 239 Gottenburg 4857......... 945 Spain and Gibraltar............. 32565................. Havana, Mexico, &c................................... 25408............................... Genoa, Trieste, &c.............. 45228......... 7692 617 3388 China ...... Other foreign ports. 1490......... 13057.... 000 975 New York... 9573 Export of Flour, Pork, Bacon, Lard, Beef, Lead, Whisky, and Ports. Corn, for the year ending 31st August, 1848. 104290 15920 5655 391690 5482 59998 8523 687 4226 268501 6967 Baltimore................ 50 31439 6028 74947 1528 Charleston...... 6235 Oth'rc'stwise pts 39635 13241 11865 13203 2725 12419 ⚫37977. 6937 59007 14038 2134 Exports of Sugar and Molasses, for the year ending Aug. 31, 1848. Comparative prices of Sugar, on the Levee, on the first of each *In our review of the Patent Office Report, see ante page 538, our estimates for the Sugar Crop of 1847 were taken from the "Picayune" of September 1st, 1848. We find, by comparing the tables in the "Picayune" with those of the "New Orleans Price Current," from which the present table is taken, that they are differently made up, though the results are about the same. In fairness to the Commissioner of Patents, we wish to say that the prices of sugar for the last five years, have ranged higher than our remarks at page 538 would seem to indicate. We find, however, that the average at New Orleans has not reached six cents per pound since 1843-4. We are still of opinion that our estimate for the sugar crop of 1847, is not too low.-[EDITORS. . HAVING arrived at the conclusion of the tenth number of the WESTERN JOURNAL, we trust that we shall be excused for adverting to our own affairs. To us, few things could be more embarrassing than canvassing for our own work; and hence we have waited until those confiding friends who generously came to our support at the commencement, should have time to judge of its merits. We are not so vain as to imagine that we have given satisfaction to all our readers, nor so egotistical as to suppose that we have done complete justice to the work. Yet we may be allowed to say that many of our patrons have kindly expressed their ap probation of our labors, and are pleased to encourage us in the hope of being useful to the country. From such individuals we venture to claim something more than the money price of the work: we claim their influence in extending its circulation. If they are convinced of its utility, we hold it to be their duty to aid in extending its usefulness, and we respectfully invite them to discharge this duty by explaining the nature of the work, and soliciting subscriptions. We have still on hand a considerable number of the current volume-these we will dispose of for $2,50, and any individual sending us five dollars before the commencement of the next volume, will be entitled to the first and second volumes. After the close of the first volume, the work will be enlarged to 72 pages, printed with new type and on good book paper. With these improvements we cannot afford the second volume alone for less than three dollars. Our distant subscribers who are in arrear for their subscription, will confer an important favor upon us if they will remit by mail, at their earliest convenience. TO AGENTS. We beg to call the attention of our agents to the foregoing address to our patrons, and desire that they should be guided by it in the discharge of their duty. We respectfully solicit their active exertions. TO EDITORS.. Our friends in the interior with whom we exchange would greatly oblige us by publishing our terms during the remainder of the year. We cannot afford to pay for this service, and wish it to be understood that we do not claim it except from such as may believe that it will be the means of promoting the public good. LARGE HEMP STALK. We have received from Capt. J. T. CLEVELAND a Hemp Stalk produced on his farm in Howard county, Missouri, which measures 8 inches in circumference. He informs us that it measured over nine inches when taken from the ground. We avail ourselves of this opportunity of noticing two typographical errors which occur in Capt C.'s communication on the growth of Hemp, in the August number. At page 441, line 30, for leave read have, and at page 444, line 32, foc land read hand. |